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A PHILOSOPHIC ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASTROLOGY 125 The Lord of the Ascendant, planets in the First House, if any, and the Moon represent the inquirer. Determine next by what House the thing asked about is ruled, then consider whether the Lord of that House is favorably aspected with the Lord of the Ascendant, the planets in the First House, and the Moon. If so, the matter will come to a favorable conclusion, but if these significators are aspected by square or opposition, the matter will come to naught.

But if someone else comes to you with a proposition, and you set up a figure to bid you in forming an idea of what to do, be sure to remember that HE is the prime mover in the matter, and that therefore the Moon, Ascendant and First House are his significators, while you are represented by the Seventh House and its Lord. It does not matter that you ask the question, the proposition that you ask about is his; and lack of this knowledge has been a stumbling block to many who have given a wrong judgment on that account,

The things signified by the Houses are briefly as follows:

First House: Matters of an intimate personal nature.

Second House: Financial gain.

Third House: Matters concerning brothers and sisters, short journeys.

Fourth House: Houses and lands, patrimony and removals.